Comic: Will Write For Chocolate

The premise: a bunch of writers with different genre and market interests live together in a big house. My main focus at the time was on getting nonfiction articles published, so that was the initial focus of the strip’s main character, Eliza.

I didn’t have an outline or plot goals in mind. Since I was doing the comic for the fun of it, I found it more interesting to sit down with a blank template each time and come up with that strip’s story on the spot. More often than not, the strip contained an echo of what was going on in my own freelance life, or (as in the case below) in the life of one of my writer friends:

Sometimes I used my webcomic as self-therapy. Better to vent in a comic than explode at a stranger:

This is great! I read one of the strips and thought, “both characters are me!” and another, on the “Things you should never say to an aspiring writer” where I wanted to see the line, “can you make a living at that?”

The more people I meet, the more I’m impressed by how talented people are. We’re lucky to live in an age where we are allowed to express ourselves through our talents and have the ability to share them with the entire world. Thanks for sharing.

Debbie, I love these! And I love how your project echoes one that I did a couple years ago. Basically I wanted to write something “just for fun” while I was slogging through my novel (note: I love my novel, but let’s be honest, sometimes writing is more hard than fun) so I started a web serial, and every week I wrote about three young women who were remarkably like me and my two best friends. (Complete coincidence. Uh huh. ;))

Anyway, there’s no real point to this, except to say that you brought back good memories and made me smile with your great sense of humor. Thanks!